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ead the board. Pretty much everyone has the problem. On an AMD Phenom 9500 it was pretty much unplayable. I'd say the minimum requirement for this game is an Intel Core i7 975 or 9xx processor overclocked to similar speed. I just don't understand how many people buy entrenchment even when they know it's that slow?!? Personally, if they won't fix it (the game can only use one CPU although being advertised as multicore) I guess I'll return it and get my money back - asid

[quote who="BellGoRiiing" reply="2" id="2467304"]Not much of a computer wizard, what's OC? lol I'm still planning going with that motherboard that I posted in my post...so...I dunno, lol.[/quote] OC = Overclocking About the board/CPU: You might want to read up about the processors performance, especially for single core games. The reason that I did recommend that 920 is that I've seen pretty many reports of people who did speed it up to 3.6-4 GHz for gaming and that

About the speed issue: With a Phenom 9500 (4x2.2 GHz) the game was pretty much unplayable slow, even 1x speed didn't work properly. With an Intel Core i7 975 (4x3.3 GHz) the game is doing much better although I still wish for more performance (probably a simple OC would do it) as on larger maps, later into the game, I sometimes need to switch back to 1x speed. A cheap solution probably would be an Intel 920 processor with massive OC (they seem to be good at that). Scre

[quote who="Decim8tor" reply="13" id="2461515"]i didnt make anything up. i told you what it says on on my computer. it says Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7350. and last i checked 64 divided by 2 equals 32. i know my total load is 64% and each core is 32% because i have a drive monitor and a cpu meter telling me what the processor activity is. unless my computer is lying to me *sarcasm*[/quote] If each core had 32% load, your whole CPU would have 32% load. If 2 cores with 32% each would

[quote who="Decim8tor" reply="11" id="2461348"]mine is a T7350 dula core at 2.0 ghz each. 64% is the TOTAL load i get when running Sins. that means each processor is running at 32%. then again it is a gaming laptop [/quote] It would be more helpful if you'd provide real info, not some you made up. 1) If your total CPU load is 64% that means that's much more than 32% per core. Both cores with 32% load would equal to 32% CPU load total. That's why with my processor the Sins proc

Do you get Sins to use 64% CPU or 64% CPU load at all? 50% for sins would equal a 100% CPU load on your dual core. I do get 12-13% CPU load on my 975 and that means it's 100% CPU load on a single core. Opening the task manager, it's also easy to see. Sins only does use one core at constant maximum load, even when the game is paused! That's also what tech support says. They use one thread for loading textures, one thread for loading sounds and one thread for everything else. The very b

[quote who="Decim8tor" reply="6" id="2460856"]i dont have this problem and i have a Toshiba Qosmio with an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.0 ghz each with an NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS and 3 gigs of RAM running Windows 7 64 bit. btw this game is designed to use multi-core no matter how powerfull your single core is. also i often run that game at 8x mode to get through certain battles and other things more quickly with only a slight drop in fps. as i said its designed to run on dual core machines no

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="3" id="2457902"] It's possible that Sins chooses one of the cores to run on and that other programs could be running on that same core. I suggesting clearning off one of the cores for no program other than Sins itself and to set Sins to have high priority.[/quote] The fun thing is that I can run other programs, even such using GPU acceleration, on a second screen without slowing Sins down any further. Sins is even maxing out a single cor

You should know that the game is also very slow on an Intel Core i7 975 processor, although much better than on my old Phenom 9500 (which really was unplayable slow). The biggest problem is, that even with multicore CPUs you cannot use that CPU feature although the game is advertised as multicore. The game simply does use one single thread for most of what happens in the game...and thus any modern multicore CPU simply is almost idle but has one core maxed out - and Sins slow as hell.

*GRRR* first I get "forum crashed", browse again to this thread, no reply there...write it a second time and now have a double entry...is there a delete entry button hidden somewhere? I only saw "edit". Screet

[quote quoting="post"] I am playing a game and all of a sudden my mouse context zoom stopped working. This has happened before....the mouse just zooms in and out and does not move the screen to center on the mouse pointer as you are zooming in. Is there a key stroke or sequence that changes the zoom mode or something or a specific setting that tells the camera to move the screen as it zooms in or just zoom to the current screen center? [/quote] Did y

Get a faster processor - or somehow convince the developers to implement multicore usage. Sadly, it's only using a single core, thus the specs told at the games box won't give any real idea about what is necessary. With a core i7 975 it's sometimes possible to switch to x2 speed later into the game on medium sized maps, just to give you an idea of real minimum requirements. Screet

Tried to write earlier, but it resulted in a message that the forum software crashed?!? Changing the language is very easy: 1) uninstall Sins completely (may require manual cleanup for some installations) 2) use impulse to reinstall the software via internet which then will allow to select any of the available languages Installation from the internet is much faster than from DVD (unless you've got a slow connection). I was astonished at the improved installatio

Yes, if you reduce graphics, you do massively reduce the RAM amount which is being used. Setting all to lowest will result in Sins dropping down to about 650Megs...and it even does work for games currently running! I've never seen that game to use more than 1.4x Gig though, which is within the 32bit limit. Screet

[quote who="Pbhead" reply="2" id="2419924"]and there is a fleet management screen... and you can attach rally points to your fleets. and they will auto-join and such... cant auto-que dead units... sorry... but play around with that screen a bit... and try " I wonder what happens if..." I think you will find quite a few of the things you are talking about. [/quote] Well, the auto-join is buggy: If you have two fleets operating at one system and have one fleet designated to b

[quote who="Pbhead" reply="1" id="2420030"]Prolly the same issue with jam weapons that was fixed in the hotfix. So... Illum damage... and nano weapon jammers... and i feel like there was something else... tier 2 of phasic trap... ok.. that.. but... w/e[/quote] Malice autocast has the same problem: It does autocast on a single enemy and also for the casting ship alone. To really work well on autocast it needs 1) many enemies in range (really must be) 2) multi

[quote who="kryo" reply="3" id="2420774"] Yes, but the game even is advertised as Multicore in germany. Since it's still being sold, there's at least two years warranty on these copies. Furthermore, advertising features which do not exist is unlawful in germany. That would be something you'd want to take up with Kalypso, the Euro publisher. We do not handle the European packaging or advertising.[/quote] May be, but then it would really provide no solution, or do the Calypso

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="2420548"]Sins will use extra cores to handle texture loading as needed, however other than that it is largely single-core. Given the large investment that would be needed to change the code that significantly this late in its lifecycle, I doubt that additional multithreading is a change we'll be likely to see (versus actual gameplay changes as are coming in Diplomacy).[/quote] Yes, but the game even is advertised as Multicore in germany. Since it's stil

Even with a 64bit OS a 32bit App could not pass the old 32bit RAM limit. That one typically happens at a little over 1.4 GiB of RAM usage (for a single App, thus the total RAM usage would be around 2 GiB). However, with everything on Max, I can barely push Sins to the 1.4 GiB limit and as you might guess, I've never ever had Sins crash. Something that might be related to limited RAM - I'm not sure about that - might be that effects stop too early later in the game. I need to m

[quote who="Pbhead" reply="17" id="2411715"] 1. umm... this is hard to understand... but what i think you are trying to say is not true at all. 2. they do work (most of the time) 3. they do folly the order in which they have been clicked (unless something is preventing it from building... in which it will get back to that as soon as whatever is preventing it stops being preventing... for example... tell it to build 3 hanger bays and 2 trade ports... but yo

I think that bug is related to this one: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/366854 Screet

[quote quoting="post"]Is it too early to begin talking about what needs to go into the next patch? [/quote] 1) Construction of ships and structures stops without having to do so. Reasons: You are upgrading the planet or fleet and start building. Instead of using up the present limit, all construction will be stopped once there are more structures/ships in the queue than this limit, thus construction can stop without even using a single point of the current available limit

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="9" id="2410324"] Quoting Blair Fraser, reply 3Sales have been increasing so I doubt very much Sins will die anytime soon. Sales of the game itself or the expansions? I wonder if you guys would get a bunch of sales by lowering the price down to $15 or bundling it with a graphics card. [/quote] I did want to ask: Sales increased after the latest patch release? ;) It really helps a lot, but even on an i7 975 I wish for better performance.

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="1" id="2409913"]Get a better processor is the most effective way.[/quote] What's better than a i7 975? Maybe the most effective way would be to implement multicore support...and don't tell me, that this game has it - it's just one big thread with a little helpers, thus it's only using one core. The other cores don't get any visible load. Also don't tell me that it's impossible to make a game like this use multiple threads. I still see it as false adv

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="2" id="2395299"]They avoid pirate bases like the plague, but they do attack them under extreme conditions. That is, in the case where nothing is left to conquer, or the pirate base is actually in their way.[/quote] Yes, in plain sins I've several times seen the AI take out the pirate base. That does make much more sense than sending their fleets THROUGH the pirate base in order to attack, which sadly also happens pretty often. It's quite easy